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Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yunhan Qiao , Md Istiak Hossain Shihab , Summit Haque , and Christopher Hundhausen

Code generation tools driven by artificial intelligence have recently become more popular due to advancements in deep learning and natural language processing that have increased their capabilities. The proliferation of these tools may be a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Owura Asare , Meiyappan Nagappan , N. Asokan

We present a comprehensive real-world evaluation of AI-assisted software development tools deployed at enterprise scale. Over one year, 300 engineers across multiple teams integrated an in-house AI platform (DeputyDev) that combines code…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT are increasingly used in software engineering (SE) for tasks such as code, test, and documentation generation. However, engineers often face uncertainty about when to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Vahid Garousi , Zafar Jafarov , Aytan Mövsümova , Atif Namazov

With the recent advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs), AI-based code generation tools become a practical solution for software development. GitHub Copilot, the AI pair programmer, utilizes machine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xiyu Zhou , Peng Liang , Beiqi Zhang , Zengyang Li , Aakash Ahmad , Mojtaba Shahin , Muhammad Waseem

Powered by recent advances in code-generating models, AI assistants like Github Copilot promise to change the face of programming forever. But what is this new face of programming? We present the first grounded theory analysis of how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Shraddha Barke , Michael B. James , Nadia Polikarpova

The software engineering community recently has witnessed widespread deployment of AI programming assistants, such as GitHub Copilot. However, in practice, developers do not accept AI programming assistants' initial suggestions at a high…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Jenny T. Liang , Chenyang Yang , Brad A. Myers

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) facilitates content production and enhances ideation capabilities, which can significantly influence developer productivity and participation in software development. To explore its impact on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Fangchen Song , Ashish Agarwal , Wen Wen

This paper aims to evaluate GitHub Copilot's generated code quality based on the LeetCode problem set using a custom automated framework. We evaluate the results of Copilot for 4 programming languages: Java, C++, Python3 and Rust. We aim to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ilja Siroš , Dave Singelée , Bart Preneel

Evaluating in-the-wild coding capabilities of large language models (LLMs) is a challenging endeavor with no clear solution. We introduce Copilot Arena, a platform to collect user preferences for code generation through native integration…

With the rise of AI-powered coding assistants, firms and programmers are exploring how to optimize their interaction with them. Research has so far mainly focused on evaluating output quality and productivity gains, leaving aside the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Charlotte Brandebusemeyer , Tobias Schimmer , Bert Arnrich

Knowledge transfer is fundamental to human collaboration and is therefore common in software engineering. Pair programming is a prominent instance. With the rise of AI coding assistants, developers now not only work with human partners but…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Alisa Welter , Niklas Schneider , Tobias Dick , Kallistos Weis , Christof Tinnes , Marvin Wyrich , Sven Apel

GenAI solutions like GitHub Copilot have been shown to increase the productivity of software developers. Yet prior work remains unclear on the quality of code produced and the challenges of maintaining it in software projects. If quality…

General Economics · Economics 2026-01-29 Feiyang Xu , Poonacha K. Medappa , Murat M. Tunc , Martijn Vroegindeweij , Jan C. Fransoo

As software development practices increasingly adopt AI-powered tools, ensuring that such tools can support secure coding has become critical. This study evaluates the effectiveness of GitHub Copilot's recently introduced code review…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Amena Amro , Manar H. Alalfi

AI-based code assistants are promising tools that can facilitate and speed up code development. They exploit machine learning algorithms and natural language processing to interact with developers, suggesting code snippets (e.g., method…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Vincenzo Corso , Leonardo Mariani , Daniela Micucci , Oliviero Riganelli

The study analyzes the introduction of Microsoft 365 Copilot in a non-university research organization using a repeated cross-sectional employee survey. We assess usefulness, ease of use, output quality and reliability, and usefulness for…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Carsten F. Schmidt , Sophie Petzolt , Wolfgang Beinhauer , Ingo Weber , Stefan Langer

GitHub's Copilot generates code quickly. We investigate whether it generates good code. Our approach is to identify a set of problems, ask Copilot to generate solutions, and attempt to formally verify these solutions with Dafny. Our formal…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Dakota Wong , Austin Kothig , Patrick Lam

There is burgeoning interest in designing AI-based systems to assist humans in designing computing systems, including tools that automatically generate computer code. The most notable of these comes in the form of the first self-described…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-17 Hammond Pearce , Baleegh Ahmad , Benjamin Tan , Brendan Dolan-Gavitt , Ramesh Karri

As AI-powered code generation tools such as GitHub Copilot become popular, it is crucial to understand software developers' trust in AI tools -- a key factor for tool adoption and responsible usage. However, we know little about how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Ruotong Wang , Ruijia Cheng , Denae Ford , Thomas Zimmermann